Upon completion of this course, the student will demonstrate knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes in the following:

demonstrate proficiency integral research writing tasks, such as the summary, abstract, proposal, review of research, formal outline, and critical research paper;

integrate a variety of documentary sources with the student’s own thinking;

demonstrate proficiency at critically reading, analyzing and evaluating both primary and secondary sources in order to interpret and responsibly manage facts, statistics, inferences, expert opinions, and value judgments related to selected authors and readings; and